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Would I be out-of-turn to point out that these thesis statements by E.P. Thompson from his _The Making of the English Working Class_ are, well, pretty much completely wrong? That there was no English working class in any Marxian sense of what a self-conscious class is that had been "made" by 1832? That there is almost no commonality between the working class of England as it stood in, say, 1926 and what there was in 1832? E.read more

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